Following the release of the Drobo 5N2 a few months ago, Drobo has released an update to their direct access storage (DAS) line with the Drobo 5D3. While the Drobo 5N2 targets the department/workgroup ...

(2) The ability to read or write a specific storage location without having to go through any locations before or after it. Generally synonymous with "random access." Magnetic disks, SSDs, optical ...

Traditional game loading takes a significant amount of compute power to decompress the game’s data, requiring the CPU to do the decompression and data transfer, which introduces latency and takes up ...

More storage, now. And make it faster! The explosion of data gathering in today’s online business environment means that your storage requirements keep going up, and the amount of data that you need ...

Two years ago, Seagate debuted a new technology for hard drives that essentially gives applications direct access to some of its drives over an Ethernet connection to store objects using key-value ...

In May 2022, AMD revealed a new technology coming to its desktop and laptop devices: Smart Access Storage. It aims to kill loading screens in games, and it’s built on Microsoft’s DirectStorage ...

Microsoft's first attempt at creating a software-defined storage platform wasn't a big hit. Its updated version just might be. One of the most difficult things in designing IT infrastructure is to get ...

A storage drive that allows direct access to any sector within the storage area. Hard drives and solid state drives (SSDs) are the two common random access storage devices. Contrast with random access ...